Word Games and Puzzles - Best of The Reader

[Pages:28]Word Games and Puzzles

MILL1ON

Joan Acosta

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Best of the Reader series of books by Joan Acosta is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada Licence.

joan@joanacosta.ca Copyright 2013

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Contents

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Word play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Find the words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Find the differences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Crosswords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Sudoku. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Tongue twisters and riddles . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Answers for puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Welcome

This e-book is part of a series called Best of The Reader. Most of the material in the e-books is from The Westcoast Reader. It is a newspaper for adults who are improving their English reading skills.

To the teacher

Learners can do the puzzles and word games individually, in pairs, or in groups.

To the reader

4 You can use this book in a classroom, with a tutor, or on your own.

4 You can check your answers at the end of the book.

Teachers' Guide There is a Teachers' Guide

on this website. The guide has ideas on how to use the e-books with students.

Reading levels

Most of the e-books in this series have three reading levels. This e-book does not have stories. It has puzzles and word games, and there are no reading levels.

Acknowledgements

The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Capilano University for this project.

Most of the material in this book first appeared in The Westcoast Reader (1982 to 2009).

Credits

Illustrations Front cover--Find the differences: Nola Johnston

Pages: 8, 9, 18, 20, 21, 25: Guy Parsons; Pages 14, 15, 16, 17: Nola Johnston; Page 7: iStockphotos; Pages 12, 13: Craig Freeman: Pages 10, 11: Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan)

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Word play

Can you guess these words and expressions?

1

2

school

3

W

cof fee

A

L

K

4

store

5

6

cloudy

MILL1ON

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8

9

EVER

e l

EVER

k

EVER

c u

EVER

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Word play

Can you guess these words and expressions?

1

2

3

over

think think

22222 DAY

over over

over

4

R E H T O M

5

yearly

6 bit

7

W WALK

L K

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ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRS TVWXYZ

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YouJustMe

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Find the words: Musical instruments

Find the words in the puzzle. Some words go across and some go down.

bagpipes

banjo

djembe

drums

horn

mandolin

maracas

piano

saxophone trumpet

sitar violin

mh tma n d o l i n ad rmgw l e d j y rbuebv i o l i n a amh a d j emb e cnpj gse l kys aj e npnk adz i soth i k i zkzt s ax o ph o nema a u j r e d r ums r cdpns p i anox

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The Westcoast Reader 4/2009

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Find the words: Valentine's Day

Fill in the blanks with words from the puzzle. On February 14, my boyfriend gave me a big box

of __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ and a beautiful red __ __ __ __.

I gave him a __ __ __ __ and a __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ card.

In the evening we went to a fancy restaurant. We ordered

a delicious __ __ __ __ __ __ and a bottle of __ __ __ __.

Puzzle

Find the words in the puzzle. Some words go across and some go down.

valentine dinner rose

gift chocolates

wv ine

agcpk l r v r t ohmpz s o a re g i f t r fw l o n rd i nne re sk w i ne txk ne n choco l ate s be j r l ot i gy xavk v vk ndt urthd i zehb otajktpsvt

There is one more "Valentine" word in the puzzle. Can you find it?

The Westcoast Reader 2/2009

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